What a truly incredible day. I was still feeling ill, but not as bad as yesterday. It started with Matt waking me up at 5:45 and us going to the excursion office to switch our rhino walk to tomorrow, which we did, then came back to our tents and slept for another hour and a half. When I woke up again, I took a quick shower and rushed to have breakfast at the bar. It was okay, but there was too much of it. Afterward we got on the truck and headed for the Falls. It was incredible when we arrived, simply breathtaking. I took lots of photos and also of the gorge bridge, which separates Zambia and Zimbabwe. I then tried to wander to the other side of the Falls, but two fuckers tried to get me to pay them US$25.00 to wade across, but I told them I didn’t have that much and abandoned the thought. So after that I sat looking at Victoria Falls for a while, then eventually left. I wandered into the museum across the way and looked around. One of the girls who worked there, having heard I was American, was very excited and asked for my address and then proceeded to give me hers... and she asked me to take her back with me.
After that we boarded the truck and entered a village of people. It was a truly amazing experience, they were so poor but happy. All the children were out with us and had toys consisting of wires attached to cans or things like that. I didn’t take any pictures, I felt bad enough being so voyeuristic anyways. They had a little market set up with dried fish, which looked far from appetizing. We played foozball with them, since they had a table in the town center. Following this experience, I was quite thoughtful and a bit shaken. We then drove into Livingstone and hung out, dropping by the grocery store. I got another bloody nose and used my shirt to stop it. We went back to camp, where I took a three hour nap and when I awoke, I just hung out talking to everyone until we went to bed again.